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Recent Examples of squeamish
For non-squeamish types, the Surgeons’ Hall Museums are downright fascinating, and Edinburgh’s several cemeteries make for moody afternoon strolls.
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Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Like Lawrence, Sam Darnold isn’t squeamish about passing into tight windows or risking an INT blemish.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
So either Sinners will be a long-time-coming breakthrough for Coogler and Jordan … or the Academy will get squeamish about something.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
Lawmakers are growing squeamish in the wake of sectarian violence in the country and Israel’s intervention against Damascus.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 23 July 2025
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Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
Like Lawrence, Sam Darnold isn’t squeamish about passing into tight windows or risking an INT blemish.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
So either Sinners will be a long-time-coming breakthrough for Coogler and Jordan … or the Academy will get squeamish about something.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
Lawmakers are growing squeamish in the wake of sectarian violence in the country and Israel’s intervention against Damascus.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 23 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squeamish
Adjective
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In 2014, the federal government also granted her permission to leave and re-enter the country to visit a sick family member in Mexico.—
Mathew Miranda,
Sacbee.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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In other words, routinely overloading on MSG (or feeling abnormally sick afterward) isn’t a viable concern for most people.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Unlike the portraits in Newman’s book, which were painted to glorify their sitters, many of the images in the Epstein files have a queasy, destabilizing aspect.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
16 Feb. 2026
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These details feel very Fennell: excessive, knowing, faintly queasy.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Squeamish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squeamish. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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